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SIX Extends Provision of Fixed Income Data with Acquisition of Majority Share in FactEntry
SIX has acquired a majority stake in FactEntry, a global provider of fixed income reference data, analytics and solutions for financial market participants. The acquisition enhances SIX’s data offering and meets customer demand for the company to expand its global fixed income footprint. FactEntry’s fixed income data sets, including reference data and corporate actions, will…
Snowflake Combines Data Collaboration and Privacy in Cross-Cloud Data Clean Rooms
Snowflake has announced general availability of Snowflake Data Clean Rooms that allow enterprises to securely share data and collaborate while preserving data privacy. The solution is designed to help firms achieve business value in the Snowflake Data Cloud and is the result of Snowflake’s acquisition of data clean room technology provider Samooha, which is now…
Strategies for Mastering Benchmark Data Management
Benchmark data is fundamental to the functioning of capital markets. Yet, despite its use over many decades, it remains costly to source, complex to manage and difficult to integrate with existing systems, leaving many firms unable to derive full value from the data. It is also perceived by many capital markets participants to be the…
Return on Investment Remains a Challenge for Financial Institutions Migrating Data to Cloud
Migrating data and apps to cloud can be a game changer for financial institutions. It can also be more expensive than expected and raise issues around data quality, governance, security, access and integration. A clear data strategy with a defined goal, and an understanding of what can and cannot benefit from a move to cloud,…
Snowflake Reviews the Rise of the Chatbot
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to create chatbots with 46% of apps falling into this category in May 2023, and the percentage continuing to rise. This shows a shift from LLM applications with text-based input, 82% in 2023 and 54% in 2024, to those with iterative text input and offering the ability…
SIX Invests in BITA to Enhance Global Benchmark Platform and Expand Indexing Technology Services
SIX, the Swiss financial data and market infrastructure provider, has made a strategic investment in BITA, the indexing technology and services company. The move aims to bolster a range of ongoing joint projects and fast-track the global expansion of SIX’s benchmark platform. Existing BITA shareholders, including ETFS Capital, Volta Ventures, and Pamica NV, have also…
S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds Baird Aftermarket Research on Exclusive Basis
S&P Global Market Intelligence has become the exclusive provider of Baird Aftermarket Research, which provides industry overviews, company-specific forecasts and recommendations, and in-depth thematic insights from more than 40 senior analysts covering over 700 companies. The aftermarket research adds to Baird research that has been available on S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Capital IQ and Capital…
How to Deliver a Successful Data Strategy – And Show Value
Delivering a successful data strategy and proving its value can be challenging for CDOs, but there are approaches that can ease the burden, improve outcomes, measure success, engage employees across the organisation, and raise the profile of the CDO office. Discussing ‘How to deliver a successful data strategy – show me the value!’ during a…
Rimes Releases AI-Powered Data Lakehouse Copilot for Natural Language Insights
Rimes has released a Data Lakehouse AI Copilot that provides natural language insights and enables users to accelerate performance by providing investment managers with faster, streamlined access to specific data sets they need. The solution eliminates the need to write code as its natural language answers enable users to quickly transfer datasets and apply them…
Snowflake and NVIDIA Expand Collaboration to Accelerate AI Productivity in Data Cloud
Snowflake and NVIDIA have expanded an existing collaboration by bringing together the full stack of the NVIDIA accelerated compute platform with Snowflake’s Data Cloud data foundation and secure AI. The result, a combination of computing power and infrastructure designed to accelerate AI productivity. The expansion builds on Snowflake and NVIDIA’s previously announced NVIDIA NeMo integration…